not excited about that, but that is only the similarity that me and the other guy. half david plouffe, palmieri, they can both. that is all for all in tonight. good evening, alex, where are you? did you say, where am i? yeah, you re not here. it s not the dark cone of last night. lastyou know what it, is it s dp kornacki and the big board. all the board is there. i m here, come visit. i m isa. all right. thank, you my friend. and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night, was not that much of a surprise. but this, this was. i don t know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020, do you believe that it was on us or not, 80% 82% said it was not. now, before we go on further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or is square footage in his new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc
this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
tapper starts now. what are governor nikki haley and ron desantis s plans to derail the trumps trained? the lead starts right now. after a blowout in iowa, next stop, new hampshire as donald trump pushes his competitors to drop out. ron desantis in nikki haley make their next move is vowing to stay in the fight. were going inside the campaign to learn their battle plans and defiance on display and for sale. we will take you to a store in trump country that has trump memorabilia that really has to be seen to be believed. the new round of strikes on the iranian backed. seizes iranian made weapons on their way to arm. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. cue the music. the election jam is underway. a runaway victory for donald trump last night in the iowa republican caucuses. the strongest showing for any nonincumbent in the modern era of the iowa caucuses since the 1970s with trump winning 51% of the vote. that is 10 points higher than the previous record. george
presidential election. the first american election with a front-runner indicted for conspiring to steal the last one. dividing his time between the campaign trail and the courtroom. i think he s got a lot going on. i think the d.c. circuit will rule against him. in the frigid cold. the coldest in modern history. temperatures so low, they bring new meaning to the term negative campaigning. republicans in iowa will make their choice. donald trump is a threat to democracy. tonight, special election coverage, with joy reid, chris hayes, alex wagner, ari melber, jen psaki, lawrence o donnell, stephanie ruhle, plus campaign experts and steve kornacki with results and analysis at the big board. once every four years the big one. msnbc s special coverage of the iowa republican caucus, the start of the 2024 presidential election, is right now. and here we go. ready or not. time to stop worrying about it. time to start actually doing it. good evening. i m rachel mad
now. where are you? good evening. did you say where am i? yeah. you re not here. it s just that you know what it is it s steve kornacki and the big board. oh, the board is here. i got it. so i m here. come visit. i miss you. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night was not that much of a surprise. but this this was. i don t know if you know but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. do you believe it was honest or not? 82% said 82% said it was not. now, before we go on any further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or his square footage in the new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc news constructed entrance polls of voters as they headed into those iowa caucus sites, and 66% of caucus goers polled said they did not believe joe biden legitimately won the 2020 elect